Mustafa Guzelgoz was a legend librarian in Turkey, especially in Central Anatolia Region’s Cappadocia part, he was born in Urgup in 1921 and died in Urgup when he was age of 84 in 2005.

Mustafa Guzelgoz actually couldn’t study in the high school, and he didnt take a lesson about library, but he assignment as a librarian to the Tahsinaga Library in Urgup in 1944, the time was World War II years and Turkey was in poverty, and he believed that poverty could alleviate with education for this reason he wanted to take books the villages at any cost, because go to the villages by car was impossiple in that times in Cappadocia, due to transport infrastructure Mustafa planned to carry off the books with a donkey, he requested a permission from the ministry and took a permission, so he delivered the books to the villages on a donkey, at… Read more